1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.
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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.

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But it will always the little people that will have to pay and suffer
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Well said although I'd add theft.
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If you are going to spend as much of defence spending you should also equally spend on peace initiatives
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Yes... Both Parties... We never really have a choice.
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In the now immortal word of Mike Breen: BANG!
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When US has not learnt from Vietnam or Iraq or Syria or Libya and despite that they poked their fingers into Afganistan. How can you expect them to learn from Afghanistan. The policy goes beyond Bush. They created Mujahiddeens which further created Alquaida, Taliban etc
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Learnt, do you expect they will learn in future. No. Never.
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After 9/11 the same monster they created them hit them back proving the adage what you sow is what you reap. They were blindly supporting China to counter USSR now China showed their true colours not only to US but also to others. With so much of history behind nothing has been
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There was some hope for Afgans particularly the women. Had Americans were not involved the people of Afghanistan were used to the Talibanic life and would have continued. But now it is like giving away the pet bird to the cat. Very unfortunate to Afgans and a big betrayal bu US
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This is the result of the policies of Bush and Rumsfeld. Learn from those failures, and don't repeat them. Enough countries have been destroyed by America's policies
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